What exactly goes through Blizzard's head?

Its now been proven that Blizzard has been suspending or banning players that have done nothing wrong in their Win-trading crusade, yet nothing is ever done about the hundreds of bots running around in BGs. Are they lazy or just incompetent?

Its now been proven that Blizzard has been suspending or banning players that have done nothing wrong in their Win-trading crusade, yet nothing is ever done about the hundreds of bots running around in BGs. Are they lazy or just incompetent?

Just because a friend of friend states they didn't win-trade doesn't mean they didn't.

Blizzard has admitted that their suspending of SOME of the players accused of manipulating arena rankings may have been a mistake, and as such they are moving to rectify that mistake by rescinding those suspensions. And because of this honest admission of a mistake and stellar move to rectify said mistake you are upset that they aren't more agressive with botting... something that has absolutely nothing to do with win-trading at all.

Hi. I like Oranges but I hate ferrets because Purple. That's your argument right there.

Blizzard has admitted that their suspending of SOME of the players accused of manipulating arena rankings may have been a mistake, and as such they are moving to rectify that mistake by rescinding those suspensions. And because of this honest admission of a mistake and stellar move to rectify said mistake you are upset that they aren't more agressive with botting... something that has absolutely nothing to do with win-trading at all.

Hi. I like Oranges but I hate ferrets because Purple. That's your argument right there.

My problem is that Blizzard is inventing an "issue" to correct wrongfully instead of doing anything about the plague of botters that have been ruining the game for years.

It's probably also a bit easier for Blizzard to discern win-trading over botting. Botting utilizes 3rd party applications that are growing more sophisticated so as to bypass Warden. It takes time to prove that the user is USING a bot when you cannot detect the bot.

With win-trading I imagine there were clearer scenarios where you had A vs B and A just sat down and died, using no defensives, healing, or attacks of any kind. And then you'd have A vs B again but this time B would squat down and die. In a scenario like that it's pretty easy to see what's going on just reviewing logs.

Its now been proven that Blizzard has been suspending or banning players that have done nothing wrong in their Win-trading crusade, yet nothing is ever done about the hundreds of bots running around in BGs. Are they lazy or just incompetent?

write a program and sell it to blizzard to deal with bots, you'll earn millions.

Just because a friend of friend states they didn't win-trade doesn't mean they didn't.

We are now talking about top RBG players. People who MET wintraders at 2.6k+ rating.
They are now getting banned because the new "system" works like this; If you havent done enough spells during a RBG it takes you for a wintrader, because wintraders doesnt use spells, they just cap flags etc as fast as possible. But, at some occasions wintraders meet REAL TEAMS, and the wintraders doesnt join except one player who warns the rest not to join. Now, the REAL team doesnt use any spells, because they dont have any opponents. So the system now thinks their wintraders, and ban them.

in thatr case add a line to the program about facing a single player and give them the benifit of the doubt but put a flag on the accounts and if this happens repeatedly perhaps they could investigate further. meh i dunno that may be alot of work on there part.

Blizz doesn't care about cheating in PvP because PvP, unlike PvE, doesn't get new content that could be "spoiled" by people by people using exploits or such.

Blizzard cares about ALL cheating which results in some players experiencing a diminished game experience. The fact that they don't manage to deal with every case of cheating instantly does not constitute evidence to the contrary.

That is not the reason. When a group cheats to beat a boss, it puts other players who are competing for world or server firsts (or any kind of ranking) at a disadvantage. Top end PvE raiding is a form of PvP in that you are competing in a race against other players.

Originally Posted by Feranor

Win-trading/exploits/botting in (R)BG/Arena? "Meh, it's just some people getting gear/title that looks slightly different than last season's, who cares?"

If they genuinely didn't care, then why the ban wave? Of course they care. They care because cheaters spoil the game for non-cheaters, causing them to become more likely to quit the game. Cheating harms the reputation of game and deters new players from joining the game.